Lance Armstrong just gave an interview for the cover of Men’s Journal about his lady loves, and he comes off as quite the player. Which he doesn’t seem to have any problems with. Armstrong says he’s a young, single guy and as long as he’s open and honest with whoever he’s dating, he’s being fair to them. Which all sounds well and good, until you think about his long string of romances. He also admits he’s not rattling any headboards but says he does alright.

Though the story isn’t on the magazine’s website yet, the Huffington Post transcribed some of the interview. Here are a few of the highlights.

These days he’s unapologetic about his reputation in the tabloids as a pussy hound, linked to designer and socialite Tory Burch, Ashley Olsen (whom he denies dating), and, until recently, Kate Hudson. “I’m a 36-year-old single guy who is completely open and honest with every woman in my life,” says Armstrong. “As long as you’re honest, and no one’s getting played or let down, then you’re being fair.”

Armstrong doesn’t go on a lot of real dates. “I think it’s hard for me, or for anyone in my position, to call someone up and say, ‘Hey, can I take you on a date?’” he says. “It’s never like that. I meet people casually, while hanging out with friends, so there’s less pressure.” Sex is something he enjoys, because he didn’t get much of it on the Tour. “I had sex if I had the energy. I wasn’t one of those guys who believed in the myths about the guy losing his chi,” says Armstrong. “But the fact is that if you are riding your bike five, six, seven hours a day, you are not a sex champion. You’re just not. You have fatigue, low testosterone, and a lower libido.” He grins. “But you know, I never got any complaints.”

It is hard to miss that most of these women are somewhat similar: down-to-earth blond lasses with Cheshire cat grins and small waistlines. Does he have a type? “Everyone says that!” says Armstrong, moodily. “Everyone says I have a type! Of course I have a type. But doesn’t everyone have a type? So shut up!” Um, isn’t that type a little like your mom? “Now, hold on a minute there, ” he says, laughing. “That’s just gross.”

Armstrong also shows the reporter an infinity bathtub he has at his Texas mansion. It has some fancy/expensive art hanging above it, and he noted, “Girls love that tub,” he says, “They’re always splashing around in it, and I’ve gotta be like, ‘Hey, quit splashing the art!”

The reporter points out that there’s no way to tell if Armstrong is talking about his daughters or random chicks he brings back to his pad. Considering he’s knows a lot more for being a babe magnet than a dad, I’m doing with the later. He’s like the John Mayer of the cycling world. Okay I take that back. That’s the meanest thing I’ve said all day, I’m sorry.

Here’s Lance, Kate Hudson, and their kids playing tennis when they were still together in July. Images thanks to Fame.

How honest was he with Sheryl Crowe? Didn’t he ask her to marry him? Douche. And girls are attracted to you mainly because of your $$$$$ Lance. Sorry to break it you. You’re going to die a lonely old man. Oh that was too mean.

Actually a guy with one testicle doesn’t look any different than a guy with two testicles until you get up really close to the hanging sac. Instead of two balls there’ll be one and the other side will be kinda loose and droopy. The reason I said kinda gross is because I saw the pictures in medical journals that one can only access via their college library, and granted they were post-orchiectomy. Even so, it does look kinda weird, and it is like women with one larger breast than the other or flappy vulvas. Ya just get used to stuff like that as it doesn’t take away from sexual pleasure. I mean Sheryl and Kate certainly didn’t mind, eh? 8)

@A.C> – I’m with you on that, and just hearing someone say they have a “type” is annoying because it’s so superficial. Finding a particular look attractive is one thing, but ruling out any other look is putting too much emphasis on the physical.

If he’s a douche, fine, he’s a douche, we can (mostly) all get on board with that. But, while not personally offended, I have no balls except the steel ones I have to break out now and then, I think the disgust at a guy that has lost a testicle is just as unsettling as disgust at a woman who has lost a breast would be.

He’s 36??? He looks 50.
I have never gotten why peeps are so into this guy. He rides a bicycle for God’s sake! He’s not an engineer or a scientist or a doctor; he hasn’t done anything to benefit humanity. He just rides his little bike. I want to pat him on the head and say “You’re such a big boy now, riding your two-wheeler!”

Syko — so funny isn’t it that he shares the condition with other megalomaniac world conquerers — is he determined to screw/screw over every blonde celebrity in Hollywood as his version of this conquest? It’s obvioius that his actions, and those of his predecessors, stem from a deep and preoccupying insecurity about his manhood. After he recovered, isn’t that when he left his wife and kids for Sheryl Crow? It’s like he had to prove to the world that he “still had it” — as if winning the Tour after a humiliating and public battle with cancer wasn’t enough. “Thanks for seeing me through testicular cancer, but I just don’t find YOU attractive anymore.”

What about men? Does he any get any complaints from them? I wonder sometimes when so much is made out of a male celeb’s sex life, for instance: John Mayer, Lance Armstrong, George Clooney, and Verne Troyer.